Wanli 1592

Chapter 233 Tokugawa Ieyasu's Predicament

Xiao Ruxun's concerns about the Tokugawa Ieyasu Group are not unreasonable, but many things will not proceed as people imagined.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was indeed not dead. He took off his general's clothes, put on the clothes of a soldier, and followed a group of retainers to break out of the siege. After breaking out, he ran away desperately, to the direction of Nagato country retreat.

Gathering up the previous guards and remnants of the defeated generals along the way, when he retreated to the Nagato country, his subordinates regrouped about 5000 troops, but they couldn't find the majestic and high-spirited aura they had before. .

Tokugawa Ieyasu lost the first general Honda Tadakatsu and the first counselor Kuroda Rushui, as if his right arm and right arm were cut off, leaving only a lonely person, and the best of his men were lost.

The remaining second-line troops are only [-], and they dare not say whether they can continue to lead the Eastern League, let alone continue to sweep the world and compete with the Toyotomi clan. Erwuzi has the intention of killing him.

I didn't dare to touch him before because he had the strongest strength, the highest prestige, and the oldest qualifications, so he made all the big names obey. However, it is worth mentioning that the most powerful of these conditions is strength, and the most useless are other things. Things like prestige and seniority, these things are all based on strength, if strength is not strong enough, what you say is useless.

The local powerful daimyo who just came out of the chaos of the Warring States Period value strength the most, not only value their own, but also value the strength of others. You Tokugawa Ieyasu was the strongest before, with more than 3 soldiers and horses, so we listen to you , but now you only have more than 5000 horses, and you fell from the first prince to the position at the end of the crane in an instant. Do you still expect our [-] troops to continue to follow you?
As for Tokugawa Ieyasu's Edo Territory—that's right, if you still have [-] soldiers, we would be afraid of you, but if you have no soldiers, once the news spreads and let Toyotomi know, we would still be afraid of you Toyotomi Hideji will immediately attack the Edo territory with all his strength. At that time, the Tokugawa clan's family could not be preserved, let alone other things. If you have no base, what do you expect?

Everyone can see what Tokugawa Ieyasu himself can see. According to the first planned plan, after these daimyos pacify Kyushu, they will all attack Shikoku and Honshu through the Nagato Kingdom and catch up with the Tokugawa Army. At about this time, the scouts sent by Tokugawa Ieyasu reported that they saw a large number of troops marching towards where he was.

Tokugawa Ieyasu knew that the time had come to decide his own destiny, and now there was no one to advise him. Kuroda Rushui died, and those who could advise him no longer existed. , can help kill the enemy but can't help plan the future, Tokugawa Ieyasu can only think about it bit by bit, but he is so distracted that he really has no spare energy to continue planning.

His intestines were green with remorse, and he took the regret medicine in handfuls, regretting why he wanted to go to war with the Ming army when his head got hot. What is not courting death?It's good now, the old foundation of many years has been exhausted, and the strength has been greatly damaged. He was originally the leader of the Eastern Kingdom's daimyo, and he fell to the top ten in an instant. How can he have enough right to speak?

The good situation became unclear again because of the joining of the Ming army. The collective rebellion of the Dongguo daimyos cast a heavy shadow, and he could even foresee the final failure.

The road of rebellion can no longer continue. If the fight continues, it does not mean that the army, even the current Toyotomi family can wrestle with him. The strength of Maeda Toshiie has not been damaged, and his strength is still complete. Completely, if they really had to fight face to face, the Toyotomi clan might not have no chance of winning. They could still continue to survive. Even if they didn't have the strength to recover part of the territory that had already been occupied, they could still guarantee a piece of territory to fight against each other.

Tokugawa Ieyasu thought a lot, but the only thing he didn't think of was the integrity and courage of these daimyos allied with him. He didn't expect these guys to be so lacking in integrity and courage.

After learning that Tokugawa Ieyasu's army was almost wiped out, leaving only a few thousand remnants, the daimyos were shocked and surrounded Tokugawa Ieyasu asking questions, asking him why the Ming army would suddenly break the covenant and attack him , Did he anger the Ming army somewhere, causing them all to suffer together?
Everyone's private territory is in the east of Kyoto. Although the Toyotomi Army has been basically destroyed and there is no threat of power, but if they are also basically destroyed, the Toyotomi Army will have time to nibble down their territory little by little. Basically all the elite soldiers and powerful retainers were taken away, leaving only a few elites and a large number of old, weak, sick and disabled in the family.

Toyotomi Hideji and Maeda Toshiie put together, how could they gather an army of [-] to [-] troops, right?The crowd tactics can kill them even if they pile up!
Tokugawa Ieyasu was physically and mentally exhausted, but his lack of confidence made him unable to make an effective rebuttal. He could only helplessly explain that the Ming army was too much, asking for 1000 million taels of silver and the entire Iwami country, which meant that the entire Iwami Ginzan If it is taken away by the Ming army, none of us will get a dime!
The daimyos looked at each other, looking at each other, and began to calculate their own interests.

According to common sense, if Tokugawa Ieyasu establishes a stable rule, can they get the silver of Iwami Ginzan?
The answer is no. With such a big mountain of silver and so much silver, the central government will definitely keep it in its own hands instead of distributing it to the enemy. We are allies now, and it will not matter whether we are political enemies or not. For sure, how can we still share the interests of Runshijianyinshan with each other?They couldn't get it in the first place, and they don't have it now, and they may not have it in the future. People like Toyotomi Hideyoshi can not give face to the Mori family, and they can control Yinshan, let alone others.

Isn't that why Tokugawa Ieyasu, an old fox, was so eager to grab the silver mountain?

So some people mocked Tokugawa Ieyasu in a strange way.

"If Lord Tokugawa was not in a hurry to snatch the ownership of Iwami Silver Mountain, he wouldn't have been defeated by the Ming army there, right? If Lord Tokugawa could take it as his duty to fight for the world, don't care about the ownership of a silver mountain. So now everyone should be about to fight in Kyoto, right? Although Maeda Toshiie is strong, he can't fight against so many of us by himself, right?"

(End of this chapter)